Description
In a storm-lit beginning, Gregor—called Nikola Tesla—arrives into the world with a mystery that seems to crackle in the air. As a brilliant inventor, he turns alternating current into a force that can reshape how people live, building technologies that feel both miraculous and inevitable. With a spare, luminous style reminiscent of the way Echenoz renders scientific legends, the novel follows Gregor’s relentless curiosity and his odd, tender detachment from ordinary human company—preferring pigeons to people as his ideas take flight. Blending invention with myth, it explores genius, obsession, and the strange weather of history—how lightning can be both a natural phenomenon and a metaphor for disruptive change.
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paperback
New Press
Published Jan 1, 2011
142 pages
ISBN: 9781595586490
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First Published
2011
Language
fra
Translation
From: fra
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